ECC Announces “Pink” and “Fight Like a Volleyballer” Week Schedule
*Courtesy of ECC Media Relations
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - Beginning with last night's volleyball contest at NYIT, the East Coast Conference and its member institutions will host over 20 games throughout October as part of its Pink and Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week initiatives.
ECC Pink Week festivities will be hosted by each men's and women's soccer team in the conference. At the selected contests, $2 donations will be taken in lieu of admission being charged. ECC Pink Week t-shirts will also be sold for $10. All proceeds from each Pink Week game will be donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.
ECC volleyball teams will host the Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week games. Lavender is the color of the general cancer awareness ribbon. As with ECC Pink Week, $2 donations will be collected at the door and t-shirts will be sold for $10 with all proceeds going to the Dana Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Institute.
In addition to gate donations and t-shirt sales, ECC member schools will also sell prize packs, ribbons, and host 50/50 raffles to collect for the respective charitable organizations associated with the Pink and Lavender weeks.
To see when your favorite ECC schools are hosting one of these games, please check out the full schedule listed below.
ECC Pink Week Games
October 19
Molloy at Mercy
Queens at NYIT
LIU Post at STAC
October 20
Bridgeport at Daemen
Dowling at Roberts Wesleyan
October 23
NYIT at Molloy (men's soccer)
October 26
NYIT at Bridgeport
Mercy at LIU Post
Dowling at Queens
October 30
NYIT at Dowling (men's soccer)
Felician at Dowling (women's soccer)
LIU Post at District of Columbia
November 2
Dowling at Molloy (women's soccer)
ECC Fight Like a Volleyballer Lavender Week Games
October 15
Bridgeport at LIU Post
October 17
NYIT at Dowling
October 18
Mercy at Bridgeport
October 22
Queens at Mercy
October 24
Mercy at Molloy
Bridgeport at Queens
October 26
NYIT at Daemen
LIU Post at Roberts Wesleyan
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About the ECC
Founded as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference in 1989 and rechristened the East Coast Conference in July 2006, the ECC was formed to enhance intercollegiate athletic competition among member institutions and to assist them in integrating athletics into their academic program in a fiscally sound way. The ECC is committed to the highest standards of scholarship, sportsmanship, teamwork, and citizenship. Its mission is to promote the total person concept in its student-athletes, which stresses the abilities to excel in academic achievement, athletic competition, and positive character traits. East Coast Conference members include: University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, Conn.); University of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.); Daemen College (Amherst, N.Y.); Dowling College (Oakdale, N.Y.); LIU Post (Brookville, N.Y.); Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.); Molloy College (Rockville Centre, N.Y.); New York Institute of Technology (Old Westbury, N.Y.); Queens College (Flushing, N.Y.); Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, N.Y.) and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, N.Y.). Associate Members include: Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, Pa.), Dominican College (Orangeburg, N.Y.), and Georgian Court University (Lakewood, N.J.).
The ECC sponsors the following championship sports: baseball; men's and women's basketball; men's and women's cross country; men's and women's lacrosse; softball; men's and women's tennis; men's and women's indoor track and field; men's and women's outdoor track and field; men's and women's soccer; and women's volleyball.
The East Coast Conference is a proud member of the NCAA and Division II. Division II is a dynamic and engaging group of colleges, institutions and conferences of varying sizes and educational missions. Division II members encourage and support diversity; value sportsmanship, fairness and equity; and place the highest priority on the overall educational excellence of the student-athlete.